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Table 1 Comparison of displacements errors and quality measures among different datasets

From: TeraStitcher - A tool for fast automatic 3D-stitching of teravoxel-sized microscopy images

Dataset Tool Error Quality measure
   Max Average Min Average
   V H D V H D V H D V H D
  TeraStitcher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.86 0.85 0.86 0.87 0.87 0.88
  Fiji 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.51    0.63  
C. elegans worma XuvStitch 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.72    0.78  
  iStitch 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.94    0.95  
  TeraStitcher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.79 0.80 0.64 0.81 0.83 0.73
  Fiji 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.55    0.58  
Neuron filamentsa XuvStitch 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.67    0.76  
  iStitch 0 0 1 0 0 0.3   0.90    0.92  
  TeraStitcher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.81 0.88 0.75 0.88 0.92 0.76
  Fiji 0 0 0 0 0 0   1    1  
Fruit fly brainb XuvStitch 0 0 0 0 0 0   1    1  
  iStitch 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.95    0.96  
  TeraStitcher 1 0 1 0.5 0 0.5 0.71 0.68 0.53 0.73 0.7 0.61
Portion of mouse cerebellumc (axons) Fiji 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.72    0.73  
XuvStitch 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.2    0.31  
  iStitch 7 1 0 3.5 0.5 0   0.95    0.96  
  TeraStitcher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.84 0.85 0.87 0.87 0.87 0.89
Portion of mouse brainc (neurons and axons) Fiji 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.77    0.80  
XuvStitch 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.90    0.91  
  iStitch w.a.d w.a. w.a. w.a. w.a. w.a.   0.76    0.78  
  TeraStitcher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.76 0.77 0.6 0.8 0.84 0.75
Whole mouse cerebellumc (Purkinje cells and axons) Fiji 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.78    0.85  
XuvStitch 3 3 2 0.8 0.8 1   0.75    0.87  
  iStitch 1 0 0 0.2 0 0   0.92    0.94  
  TeraStitcher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.77 0.75 0.74 0.77 0.77 0.75
Whole mouse brainc (neurons and axons) Fiji 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.37    0.39  
XuvStitch 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.6    0.65  
  iStitch 0 0 0 0 0 0   0.77    0.79  
  1. In this table we report a comparison of displacement errors (in voxels) and quality measures between TeraStitcher and the state-of-the art stitching tools when stitching Megavoxel-sized datasets.
  2. aPublicly available dataset downloaded from http://www.vaa3d.org.
  3. bPublicly available dataset downloaded from http://www.xuvtools.org.
  4. cCLSM dataset (courtesy of F.S. Pavone, L. Sacconi, L. Silvestri) available at http://www.iconfoundation.net.
  5. dWrong alignment.
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